Carlos III celebrates 100 days of a heart attack reign between the wave of strikes and Harry’s ‘reality’

The reign of Carlos III celebrates 100 days in one of the most convulsive moments in the United Kingdom. Despite the fact that his intervention in his politics must be neutral, his first months after the death of Elizabeth II of England are not at all comfortable with a country mired in a wave of strikes, skyrocketing inflation and a conservative government that has had two premier in just under three months.

In addition, the noise of the independentistas in Wales and Scotland begins to resonate with force and his family does not help to alleviate the deep institutional crisis that the Monarchy is experiencing. Your son Harry and his wife, Meghan Marklethey have challenged him again with an explosive documentary that leaves the Crown in a compromised place between accusations of racism and harassment.

The one who was the eternal Prince Charles not only faces a personal duel after the death of his mother, he must also face a country that is experiencing a huge political, economic and even existential crisis, after the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. To this we must add more problems: the instability that the Commonwealth is experiencing and the question of what its relationship with the Anglican church, of which he is the leader, despite his infidelities and to be divorced.

[La enfermedad de Carlos III que le provoca una gran hinchazón en los dedos de las manos y los pies]

The war in Ukraine has not made things easy for the new king either, who by no means has the same support as Elizabeth II. He is also not seen as “the rock” that it was her. This is precisely how former Prime Minister Liz Truss defined her on the day of her death. “Queen Elizabeth II was the rock on which modern Britain was built. Our country has grown and flourished under his reign. Great Britain is the great country it is today because of her,” he said. To this day, the question is in What role will Carlos III play? in a country as disunited as ever and with dozens of sectors on strike for months.

wave of strikes

In fact, this Thursday tens of thousands of nurses of the United Kingdom have joined the wave of strikes that has affected Public Health, rail transport, airports, Postal services and other economic sectors for several days now.

The British healthcare hangs by a thread and is on the brink of collapse. Although doctors in England and Wales saw their salaries increase by an average of 4.5% in July, nurses were left out of this increase. Routine consultations, surgical operations and mental health services were suspended. This situation will be repeated on December 20. And they threaten to extend it during and after Christmas.

A day later, on the 21st, the strike will move to the ambulance drivers and emergency care employees from all hospitals and health centers in the country. The mobilization of health workers adds to the protests that have paralyzed the UK rail network for days. And they will do it again this Friday and Saturday, as well as on the 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th of January.

But the situation does not stop here. The British Government has asked its citizens to avoid traveling this Christmas. The reason? Another strike, this timehe airport customs and immigration personnel.

The strikes will take place between December 23 and 21 (except December 27) at London airports in Heathrow and Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Newhaven and in Cardiff Welsh. This situation will make passenger traffic much worse, which since Brexit has multiplied the waits, queues and delays at border barriers.

A government at half throttle

With this panorama, the reign of Carlos III is being anything but placid with a conservative government that is still starting and it has barely been rolling fifty days in the middle of a country that has registered the highest inflation -11.1%- in the last 41 years and with a pound that reached minimums.

Rishi Sunak has a long list of problems to face, from the wave of strikes to demand salary improvements that are jeopardizing Health, airports and the railway system to the economic crisis, the rise in prices and immigration . In this area, Sunak has already announced that he will change the law to make asylum processing more difficult and will increase the number of police officers and controls in the English Channel.

These problems are inherited from Liz Truss, who barely lasted 44 days at 10 Downing Street, but they come from much further back and from two proper names: David Cameron and Boris Johnson.

But Carlos III is not only tarnished by his first 100 days of reign the economic situation, but also the family. His son Enrique and his wife Meghan Markle star in an explosive documentary in which each chapter is yet another revelation, according to them, of the harassment, bans and racism that they have experienced within the British Crown.

[El pasado racista del ducado de Sussex al que Harry y Meghan se aferran para mantener sus privilegios]

His revelations have been a bomb in the United Kingdom and the Royal Family is not only upset, the distance between Carlos III and his son has also increased. Also Enrique’s with his brother, Prince William, future heir.

Without Elizabeth II, who acted as a mediator, the current king’s family relationship with his son, who separated from the British Royal House in 2020, tarnishes the start of a reign that already began with low popular support. Her mother had an approval of 86%, very far from the 60% that Carlos III has. His son Guillermo is the favorite optionwith 81% support.

Ahead, the new 73-year-old monarch has the challenge of facing an uncertain future. Without the charisma of his mother and with an antiquated institution the fragmentation of the UK will not make things easy for it at all. His coronation, on May 6, could be the starting point of the change. Buckingham has already announced that she will be auterous and of shorter duration than her mother’s.